Color Effects

Pixel Genius PhotoKit Color - plug-in offers a wide range of effects, including split-toning and cross processing. The kit also includes the possibility of strengthening and adjusting the individual color images - you can make skin tones less red or lighter. Strengthening the blue will get darker and contrast the sky with clouds, and using a special gray balance (RSA Gray Balance), you can automatically remove a color tint from almost any image. All PhotoKit Color Effects create a new (-s) layer (-s) and leave the original image untouched, so there is always room for creative experimentation. In addition PhotoKit Color never changes the information attached to the original image.

This course provides a practical guide to enhancing photos with the most popular creative effects in Photoshop. Photographer, author, and teacher Chris Orwig shows how to modify color and light to add vibrance, drama, and emphasis. He then explores blur effects, including the Photoshop Blur Gallery and motion blur, to increase depth-of-field, add a softer focus, or make your still images move. The course also introduces the techniques behind digital infrared photography, and details a variety of effects that can add the popular analog look to photos: film grain simulations, vintage monochrome and color effects, and border and edge effects. The final chapters show how to use Photoshop's custom brushes and plug-ins for creative effects.